Public Understanding of Science

Article	Citations
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies	46
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era	35
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science	30
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries	29
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science	29
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception	29
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections	28
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward	28
Public support for government use of network surveillance: An empirical assessment of public understanding of ethics in science administration	27
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis	26
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs	25
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media	23
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter	21
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies	20
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science	20
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology	19
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’	18
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device	18
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing	17
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society	16
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones	16
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk	16
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia	15
The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain	15

Scientism, trust, value alignment, views of nature, and U.S. public opinion about gene drive mosquitos	14
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review	14
The role of journalistic voice in communicating climate scepticism	14
The politics of politicization: Climate change debates in Canadian print media	14
Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America	14
The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system	13
The legitimacy of science and the populist backlash: Cross-national and longitudinal trends and determinants of attitudes toward science	13
1992: The first issue of Public Understanding of Science	12
Children’s perceptions of scientists and their work: The ‘Draw a Scientist’ Test in the United Arab Emirates	12
Book Review: Kristin Demetrious, Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation DemetriousKristinPublic Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowle	11
Examining science communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” approach	11
Moral expression of “experts” and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese	11
Book review: Myrna Perez Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy PerezMyrnaCriticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle	11
The effects of self-disclosure and gender on a climate scientist’s credibility and likability on social media	11
Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–2020	11
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom	11
Book review: Felicity Mellor (ed.), Insights on Science Journalism	11
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media	11
Follow the metrics? How does social media affect the journalistic practices of digital science communication start-ups?	11
Delineating between scientism and science enthusiasm: Challenges in measuring scientism and the development of novel scale	11
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units	10
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media	10
Book Review: Maya Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives	10
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education	10
Thank you reviewers	10
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change	10
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films	10
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action	10
Quality in science communication with communicative artificial intelligence: A principle-based framework	9
Examining a conceptual framework of aggressive and humorous styles in science YouTube videos about climate change and vaccination	9
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?	9
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan	9
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement	9
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers	9
Thank you reviewers	9
Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat	8
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews	8
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism	8
The journalistic understanding of science as process and social system: A qualitative exploration in the German science journalism community	8
I am a scientist . . . Ask Me Anything: Examining differences between male and female scientists participating in a Reddit AMA session	8
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis	8
Public perceptions of climate tipping points	8
1796 – An Introduction to Botany : The critical role of women in eighteenth-century science popularisation and the early promotion of science for young girls in Britain	8
Guidance in the chaos: Effects of science communication by virologists during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany and the role of parasocial phenomena	7
Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’	7
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study	7
The health and environmental risks and rewards of modernity that shape scientific optimism	7
Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data	7
1999: The BBC simulates prehistoric wildlife	7

Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science	7
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study	7
Sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing in food and agriculture: A comparative content analysis of mass media in the United States, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, and Canada	7
How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online	7
Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis	7
Book Review: Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art	6
Positions on science and religious beliefs across societies: Development of a research instrument and testing of its validity among high school students	6
Public perception of new plant breeding techniques and the psychosocial determinants of acceptance: A systematic review	6
Richard S. Ellis, When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn	6
Audience segmentation analysis of public intentions to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Australia	6
Book Review: Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest	6
Seduction, caution, fight: Media framing of research-based expertise in Norwegian print media coverage of low energy buildings (2005–2012)	6
Book review: John L. Rudolph Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) RudolphJohn L.Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 224	6
Advocacy – defending science or destroying it? Interviews with 47 climate scientists about their fundamental concerns	6
Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale	6
Fiction references as framing devices in extended reality news discourse	6
Belief updating when confronted with scientific evidence: Examining the role of trust in science	6
David S. Caudill, Expertise in Crisis: The Ideological Contours of Public Scientific Controversies	6
Academic excellence and community relevance: Can we have it all?	6
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries	6
Perceptions of policy problems and solutions: Climate change and structural racism	6
Martin W. Bauer: ‘“Truth-value” is not the only criterion of validity, there is also the felicity of performative knowledge claims . . .’	6
The translator versus the critic: A flawed dichotomy in the age of misinformation	6
Book Review: Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines and Roslynn D. Haynes (eds) Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel	6
Credibility of misinformation source moderates the effectiveness of corrective messages on social media	6
The invisible frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining sourcing and the underrepresentation of female expertise in pandemic news coverage	5
The acceptance of evolution: A developmental view of Generation X in the United States	5
Fuelling the climate and science ‘denial machine’ on social media: A case study of the Great Barrier Reef’s 2021 ‘in danger’ recommendation on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook	5
Predictors of young people’s anti-vaccine attitudes in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Selected by expertise? Scientific experts in German news coverage of COVID-19 compared to other pandemics	5
Public understanding of science and technology in the Internet era	5
Effects of epistemic beliefs, science populism, and social media use on climate change misperceptions	5
Open science and public trust in science: Results from two studies	5
Contesting state expertise after COVID-19	5
The effect of misinformation and inoculation: Replication of an experiment on the effect of false experts in the context of climate change communication	5
Mindful mindfulness reporting: Media portrayals of scientific evidence for meditation mobile apps	5
Tragic Flaws and Practical Wisdom: Public reasoning behind preferences for different genetic technologies	5
Christianity-science compatibility beliefs increase nonreligious individuals’ perceptions of Christians’ intelligence and scientific ability	4
Why do experts disagree? The development of a taxonomy	4
Work and the public understanding of science	4
Dealing with dissent from the medical ranks: Public health authorities and COVID-19 communication	4
Public communication at research universities: Moving towards (de)centralised communication of science?	4
Believing in science: Linking religious beliefs and identity with vaccination intentions and trust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands	4
A 30-nation investigation of lay heritability beliefs	4
Narratives of hope and concern? Examining the impact of climate scientists’ communication on credibility and engagement	4
Autonomy and bioethics in fan responses to Orphan Black	4
Between data providers and concerned citizens: Exploring participation in precision public health in Switzerland	4
What if some people just do not like science? How personality traits relate to attitudes toward science and technology	4
Breeding by intervening: Exploring the role of associations and deliberation in consumer acceptance of different breeding techniques	4
‘Ugly and smelly or useful insect hunters?’ Perceptions of and attitudes towards bats in the turn of the twentieth-century public sphere in Barcelona	4
Science as the raison d’etat: Nehruvian scientism and the Indian science museum	4
Book review: Jean Paul Bertemes, Serge Haan and Dirk Hans (eds), 50 Essentials on Science Communication (co-created by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg National Research Fund)	4
Are plain language summaries more readable than scientific abstracts? Evidence from six biomedical and life sciences journals	4
How generative artificial intelligence portrays science: Interviewing ChatGPT from the perspective of different audience segments	3
European journalists and the sea: Contexts, motivations, and difficulties	3
Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample	3
Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed research in the news	3
Feminist retroviruses to white Sharia: Gender “science fan fiction” on 4Chan	3
The public you want, the public you get: Exploring the relationship between the public and science in the debate on xenotransplantation	3
STS and science communication: Reflecting on a relationship	3
Stereotypes and social evaluations of scientists are related to different antecedents and outcomes	3
Thirty years of science–society interfaces: What’s next?	3
Mapping pathways to public understanding of climate science	3
Science-related populism declining during the COVID-19 pandemic: A panel survey of the Swiss population before and after the Coronavirus outbreak	3
Can scientists use simple infographics to convince? Effects of the “flatten the curve” charts on perceptions of and behavioral intentions toward social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Book Review: Andrew Hoffmann, The Engaged Scholar – Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World	3
“That was not the discussion we wanted to have”: Engagement of civil society organizations with synthetic biology	3
Science on the mind: Examining question ordering effects when asking about science on large-scale surveys	3
Establishing an everyday scientific reasoning scale to learn how non-scientists reason with science	3
Children’s conceptions of coronavirus	3
Looking back and looking ahead	3
Book review essay: Digging deep into stories in science communication	3
Learning about climate politics during COP 21: Explaining a diminishing knowledge gap	2
Book Review: Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench (eds), Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology	2
Book review: Geoff Mulgan, When Science Meets Power	2
The four “R”s: Strategies for tailoring science for religious publics and their prices	2
Climate change by any other name: Social representations and language practices of coastal inhabitants on Mayotte Island in the Indian Ocean	2
Who makes AI? Gender and portrayals of AI scientists in popular film, 1920–2020	2
Thank you reviewers	2

A matter of right or wrong: Divisive attributes of moralized science and technology attitudes	2
Can homeopathy cure all diseases? Subgroups of homeopathy users based on beliefs about whether and how homeopathy should be used to treat serious conditions	2
Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?	2
Who is responsible? US Public perceptions of AI governance through the lenses of trust and ethics	2
Community laboratories in the United States: BioMakerspaces for life science learning	2
What are you assessing when you measure “trust” in scientists with a direct measure?	2
Indicators of trustworthiness in lay-friendly research summaries: Scientificness surpasses easiness	2
Book Review: The Many Voices of Modern Physics: Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries	2
How pandemic-related changes in global attitudes toward the scientific community shape “post-pandemic” environmental opinion	2
Science communication on Twitter: Measuring indicators of engagement and their links to user interaction in communication scholars’ Tweet content	2
Does China have a public debate on genetically modified organisms? A discourse network analysis of public debate on Weibo	2
Book Review: Brandon R. Brown Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM BrownBrandon R.Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA,	2
Book review: Angela Potochnik, Science and the Public	2
Thinking, not talking, predicts knowledge level: Effects of media attention and reflective integration on public knowledge of nuclear energy	2
Science museum educators’ views on object-based learning: The perceived importance of authenticity and touch	2
Science capital: Results from a Finnish population survey	2